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Four months in, ‘Seattle’s only Trump voter’ has his doubts
Seattle Times ^ | May 24, 2017 | by Danny Westneat

Posted on 05/24/2017 12:00:39 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Last year’s election made Seattle’s Tod Steward a minor celebrity. If by celebrity you mean “the kind that everybody hates,” he laughs.

Not here, though. In Canada. The 53-year-old First Hill resident has found a small niche in Canada as the most peculiar, and certainly most elusive, species of our time.

He’s Seattle’s Only Trump Voter™.

OK that’s not actually a trademarked phrase, nor is it numerically true. To be precise, 32,361 Seattleites besides Steward also cast votes for Donald Trump last November.

But the percentage was so historically low — only 8 percent of the city’s 385,000 votes — and so few were open about their Trump support, that by default Steward has become a symbolic one and only.

Steward, a public relations consultant, said he voted for Obama twice. So he is representative of a slice of thought that swung the election to Trump, decisively so in the Midwest. Namely, he is an independent voter who was willing to overlook all the controversy to get outsider-driven change.

“I was drawn to Trump because I’ve read some of his books and he’s a builder who gets things done,” Steward said. “I knew he wasn’t a rule follower — you could tell that from the campaign. But I figured he would put people in there who were doers. I thought he would govern from the middle. I didn’t think it would be anywhere near this chaotic.”

“I haven’t given up on him, not yet,” he says. “I’m not off the Trump bandwagon. You could say I’ve got one foot off.”

We’ll check back. It might be that Seattle’s Only Trump Voter™ ends up being the one that matters.

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: brainwashing; morefakenews; nevertrumpnarrative; propoganda
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1 posted on 05/24/2017 12:00:40 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Seattle has become a pathetic place.

It’s not alone.


2 posted on 05/24/2017 12:02:09 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No regrets, one only has to look at who his opposition was.
I will try to hold him to his campaign promises, though.
He must build the wall.
He must restore the rule of law.
And that means he must end the illegal DACA program as promised.


3 posted on 05/24/2017 12:04:23 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wow. San Francisco gave him 9%. We are more conservative than Seattle?


4 posted on 05/24/2017 12:04:32 PM PDT by Persevero (Love you guys)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Been to Seatle....its a shit hole.


5 posted on 05/24/2017 12:05:49 PM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: DoughtyOne; MinuteGal; vette6387; HarleyLady27; JLAGRAYFOX; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; unkus; ...

The Deplorables I know love Trump and admire all that he’s doing to restore our county and to take it back from the insane Liberals.

Fake News and more Fake News 24/7. I believe that Hitler’s propaganda machine would have hired all the MSM scum and Capos and they, IMO, would have fit right into the Third Reich and felt at home.


6 posted on 05/24/2017 12:06:09 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: DoughtyOne

When I was there, like 15 years ago, I was surprised (and disappointed) at the very low number of attractive females. And this was summertime, no rain, nice weather.

Aside from a couple of Asian cuties, there was nothing, I mean NOTHING to catch one’s eye.

No wonder it’s so liberal. Ugly birds of a feather . . .


7 posted on 05/24/2017 12:06:40 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW! BOYCOTT Mexico nba NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The guy sounds like a weakling.


8 posted on 05/24/2017 12:09:27 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Seattle is a cesspool of leftwing communists....and even has a 16' statue of Vladimir Lenin, the infamous and evil communist dicktator.


9 posted on 05/24/2017 12:14:36 PM PDT by newfreep ("If Lyin' Ted was an American citizen, he would be a traitor.")
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To: hal ogen
The guy sounds like a weakling.

Well...have you seen what passes for a man in Seattle these days?

10 posted on 05/24/2017 12:15:44 PM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If I lived so near a potential volcano erruption &/or earthquake that could “leave no stone resting upon another,” I’d straighten up.


11 posted on 05/24/2017 12:18:40 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: A_Former_Democrat

I live here. Ugly feminazis and malnourished vegans. No attractive women to speak of.


12 posted on 05/24/2017 12:28:57 PM PDT by WilliamCooper1
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To: newfreep

New Orleans removes Civil War memorial statues and Seattle has Lenin to be proud of...

Oh, America...Where have you gone????


13 posted on 05/24/2017 12:35:19 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Exactly right. I agree wholeheartedly.


14 posted on 05/24/2017 12:35:42 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

LOL, I hadn’t thought of that.

I will say, the women on the Left do seem to be a homely lot, or if attractive, absolutely brain dead.

Good mention...


15 posted on 05/24/2017 12:36:56 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And the number of Hillary voters there who now regret their votes is probably 1,000 fold.


16 posted on 05/24/2017 12:37:56 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The CBC found a disgruntled Trump voter in Seattle. I'm shocked. Shocked I say.

Ed

17 posted on 05/24/2017 12:39:44 PM PDT by husky ed (FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
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To: ExTexasRedhead
Fake News and more Fake News 24/7. I believe that Hitler’s propaganda machine would have hired all the MSM scum and Capos and they, IMO, would have fit right into the Third Reich and felt at home.

Ditto.
18 posted on 05/24/2017 12:41:57 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media and Shariah Socialism.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

F Seattle.


19 posted on 05/24/2017 12:42:48 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If you just look at the voting precincts within city limits, not suburbs, the largest U.S. city to go for Donald Trump was Oklahoma City which is the 27th largest city in the nation.
Trump lost the city of Jacksonville, Florida (#13) by 495 votes and he lost the city of Fort Worth, Texas (#17) by 1,029 votes.
https://decisiondeskhq.com/data-dives/the-largest-city-to-vote-for-donald-trump/


20 posted on 05/24/2017 1:17:32 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus
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